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Mendi Rodan Symphony Orchestra, and 30 Vocalists of the Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir Sang in a Choir of 160 Singers from Eight Choirs NEWSLETTER June 2016 - January 2017 Issue no.12 "Construction and Rhythm" in Poland The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance played a central role in the celebrations of Wroclaw as the European Capital of Culture 2016 Udi Perlman, a graduate student of composition at the Jerusalem The initiator of the event, renowned British stage director Chris Baldwin, Academy of Music and Dance, musicians of the Mendi Rodan Symphony sought to transfer the story of the Polish Wroclaw, formerly German Orchestra and the Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir took part in the Breslau, to future generations by referring to the four populations who main event celebrating Wroclaw in Poland as the European Capital of have a key part in the history of the city - German, Jewish, Polish and Culture 2016 in June 2016. A huge concert was held on the banks of the Ukrainian, and thus represent the story of all of Europe. Baldwin river Oder, featuring a compilation of works for choir and orchestra, the integrated a lighting system that matched and accompanied the Flow Quartet, whose four sections were each composed by a young execution of the musical scores, and performance art video was screened composer from a dierent country associated with the history of the city on the walls of the four churches that surround the compound where the of Wroclaw. Each part is also a work in and of itself and is linked to the concert took place. Screens were scattered throughout the city in order complex story of Wroclaw, with each chapter focusing on a separate to present the concert to the tens of thousands of visitors. historical period of the city, during the 20th century. The Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir was also selected to open the Udi Perlman composed the opening movement, "Construction and entire festival at an a-cappella concert held in the University of Wroclaw's Rhythm", which focused on the period between the World Wars, the days Auditorium Marianum, conducted by the choir's musical director, Prof. of the Weimar Republic - when the city was still part of Germany. "The Stanley Sperber. The choir performed 16 compositions, including text I chose," says Perlman, "is a poem by Heinrich Heine, translated into "Sacrice of Isaac" by Aharon Harlap, "God of my Word" by Paul Ben-Haim, Hebrew by Lea Goldberg: "You ow in my soul/Melody of purity/Fly, free "Depths" by Ben Yefet, and "Atur Mitzkhekh" by Yoni Rechter and spring song, to the expanse/ooded with light. Fly, please, to the Abraham Hal. garden/There the owering has begun/If you should meet a rose/Give Jerusalem Academy President Prof. Yinam Leef concluded: "We are her my blessing." There is a wonderful rendition of the song by Ester extremely proud that the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance was Ofarim and I decided to quote a section of that performance in my work. selected to represent Israel at the event in Wroclaw. We thank the I wanted to address the topic in an abstract and general way, and not in a Ministry of Foreign Aairs, who also views our participation as very directly descriptive way. So I chose the text of Heine, which is horribly important, for its support." naive. I thought of it as a kind of symbol of the era of the past, a lost era, a kind of collective memory. The other parts of the piece are in Yiddish, Czech and German. " The other three movements were composed by composers from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, students from the academies of Wroclaw, Prague and Dresden. The Orchestra, comprised of 90 musicians from these academies, included 15 players of the Academy's Mendi Rodan Symphony Orchestra, and 30 vocalists of the Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir sang in a choir of 160 singers from eight choirs. 1 MENDI RODAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA East to West – at the Israel Festival - June 2016 The concert was praised enthusiastically for the breadth and diversity of Concert of the Mendi Rodan Symphony Orchestra the program, and for the colorful and musical performance which was and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA both polished and exciting. together with the representative ensemble of the Department of Winter Symphony Oriental Music at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance In early January 2017 The Mendi Rodan Symphony Orchestra opened the A festive joint concert of the Mendi Rodan Symphony Orchestra and the season with a fascinating concert dedicated to the memory of the fth Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra was held at the Israel Festival. The president of the State of Israel, Yitzhak Navon, Chairman of the Executive concert was dedicated to multicultural dialogue in the world of music - Committee (2004-1994) and honorary president of the Academy. from Russia to Yemen and from Vienna to Cairo. It was conducted by Eitan " SymphonyCantata " by Jonathan Keren, commissioned by the orchestra with the assistance of the Ministrry of Culture, made its world premiere, alongside Mozart's Violin Concerto and a symphony by Brahms. The orchestra was conducted by its musical director, Prof. Eitan Globerson, who pointed out the fascinating parts of the artistic program, "Two of the works in the program look back on one of the greatest composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach. The piece that opens the concert – "SymphoniCantata" by Israeli composer Jonathan Keren, and the final chapter of Brahms's Fourth Symphony whose inspiration came from the chorales of Globerson and Michael Wolpe, and the representative ensemble of the Bach cantatas." Academy's Department of Oriental Music participated with soloists Yonit Jonathan Keren is one of the most prominent composers of the younger Golan Shaked, Samia Ashqar and Dunia Darawshe. generation of musicians in the country. Speaking about his work The concert program included Mark Kopytman's "Sound of Memories" "SymphonyCantata", commissioned by the Mendi Rodan Symphony which blends Yemenite folk and contemporary classical concert music; a Orchestra, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Keren said: "A few medley of songs of Fairuz and Shoshana Damari, arranged specially for years ago I played the Bach's fourth cantata "Christ lag in Todes Banden". the concert by Ehud Perlman, Yoav Shemesh and Israel Glicksburg under Its opening, based on the choral melody, shocked me both by its beauty the tutelage of Prof. Michael Wolpe; the overture to "Die Entführung aus and by the pain it expresses. Bach's cantata was based entirely on the dem Serail" by Mozart, with a specially-arranged introductory piece by same choral melody, and Bach uses it in many dierent ways. Gradually Prof. Taiseer Elias, performed by the representative ensemble of the the idea came to me to write a work that is based on the same Lutheran Department of Oriental Music; and the symphonic suite Scheherazade choral melody, and actually write a tribute to Bach's cantata as a colorful by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. collage, or a clash of worlds." Sonatenabends at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance The 18th season of the concert series at the Academy is devoted to taken from the nascent state's song repertoire. Most arrangements were Sonatas - the most important musical genre in the history of music, from written at the invitation of Mira Zakai especially for the opening show of the Baroque period to the present. The meetings feature selections of the Israel Festival in 1988, dedicated to the celebration of 40 years of sonatas by familiar and favorite composers alongside fresh discoveries, Israel's independence. Since then, the arrangements were performed performed by artists from the Academy and guests from Israel and many times by leading Israeli artists on concert stages across the country abroad. Each session will be accompanied with explanations by elite and around the world, and have become the inalienable property of the Academic sta members. Series editor, Dr. Ron Regev, said: "The sonata is Jewish song repertoire. Menachem Wiesenberg accompanied on piano not only a title which nds its way to almost every concert's program; the two young Academy graduate vocalists, who stand out among the sonata is more than just a form. It is an entire musical philosophy, which future generation began to evolve during the Baroque period, and is with us to this day." of the country's In late November the rst concert in the series took place, with the theme vocalists, soprano of "Hungarian Sonata". In this concert piano improvisations were Anna Spitz and performed based on Hungarian peasant songs of Opus 20 and Sonata baritone Guy Peltz. No. 2 for violin and piano by Bartok, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody and Hungarian Dances for four hands by Brahms. The performers were Eyal Klass on violin, alongside both Gergely Kovacs, a guest from Hungary, and Dr. Ron Regev on piano, with a lecture by Dr. Ron Regev and Prof. Paul Richter, also a visitor from Hungary. The second concert in the series, "Songs of the Land", was held in early December 2016 as a tribute to the international alto singer Mira Zakai. The concert featured artistic arrangements by Menachem Wiesenberg, 2 Finish Line Festival for completion of the Master's degree in Dance at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance is the only Israeli institution to The works of the master's degree graduates were presented to the public oer a Master's Degree in Dance. In December the Finish Line Festival who came to watch a fascinating encounter between dierent and featured the works of the third cycle of graduates of the Academy's diverse perspectives that occur in the eld of contemporary dance and M.Dance program.
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